Faculty

Stacey Swearingen White's teaching and research interests focus on sustainability and environmental policy and planning, with a recent emphasis on conditions that impel sustainability innovation.

Dorothy Daley's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of environmental and public health policy, bureaucratic politics, public participation, and collaborative decision-making.

Brandon Davis’ research focuses on American Politics and Race and Ethnicity, with a focus on normative and empirical approaches to institutions, participation, and criminal justice. 

Sarah Deer's (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) scholarship to end violence against women focuses on the intersection of federal Indian law and victims' rights - she was named as a MacArthur Fellow in 2014.

Alesha Doan's research is guided by her interests in public policy, organizations, and gender/social equity, with a focus on the development, adoption, and implementation of reproductive policies.

Chuck Epp’s teaching and research focuses on law, social change and administrative reform, with a particular emphasis on rights and racial discrimination.

Heather Getha-Taylor’s research focuses on public and nonprofit management with a specific emphasis on human resource management, collaboration, and public service leadership. 

Donna Ginther's major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, scientific entrepreneurship, and children's educational attainments.

Professor Goerdel is currently on leave. 

Holly Goerdel’s research focuses on public management, security governance, and the effects of privatization on democracy.

Hye-Sung Han’s research concerns housing abandonment and foreclosures, housing and community development, and housing policy. 

Marilu Goodyear's work focuses on innovation, organizational change, cybersecurity workforce development, and public management. 

Bonnie Johnson's research interests include civic bureaucracy, staff reports, television and citizen participation, planners working with city managers, and planning history and theory.

Rachel Krause’s research focuses on urban sustainability, particularly the adoption, diffusion, impacts of local environmental and energy policies.

Bradley Lane’s interest centers on the effect of the adoption and diffusion of changing technologies on the sustainability of transportation.

Ward Lyles' interests center on interactions of humans, natural environments, and built environments, with attention to increasing sustainability and compassion through decision-making.

Steven Maynard-Moody's research interests include social and environmental justice in the green impact zone.

Joel Mendez's research and teaching interests lie in the intersection between transportation, economic development, and social justice. 

Ben Merriman's research examines issues like immigration, election law, and environmental protection, and whether the adaptive use of administrative structures can resolve policy conflicts.

Deb is excited to return to her native Kansas as the director of the KU Public Management Center. 

John Nalbandian's research interests focus on community building and professionalism in local government as well as in human resources management.

Rosemary O'Leary's research focuses on public administration, public management, collaboration, conflict resolution, environmental and natural resources management, and public law.

John Pierce's research has primarily focused on various dimensions of the role of citizens in democratic politics.

Shannon Portillo's research interests include social equity, organizational theory and legal mobilization with a focus on how rules and policies are carried out within public organizations. 

Larry Schroeder’s research interests focus on public finance, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and decentralized governance, particularly in developing countries.

Hannes Zacharias has some 40 years of experience in administering government at the Federal, State, County and local level.  Hannes’ career in public service began in 1979 as Asst.